“Some, [are] to Sing and Play to the Base-Violl alone.” The songs present a wide variety of moods and colours, some being on the shorter and lighter side, others leaning towards the melancholic. … The bass viol improvises consonances and polyphonic imitations of the voice for a contextualized interpretation of the songs. The different lyra-viol tunings of the solos provide a richness of octaves and fifths that give colourfully resonant sonorities that fit in nicely with the moods of the songs…. Both instruments have been constructed according to early techniques of viol building and both are strung with natural ram gut… The English texts are presented with original pronunciations based on studies by scholars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

“They present the rounded and mature resultant blend to us … the intimate relationship between voice and viol, which not only does justice to the textures in which Corkine works, but even enhances his gentle intensity.” Mark Sealey, MusicWeb INTERNATIONAL